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After a full week of school, the blank Kudos Corner was becoming counterintuitive to its purpose (and oh-so boring to look at), so students wrote a Kudos to at least one of their peers. It\u2019s so refreshing to look up and see such positive remarks and encouragement from their Upper School classmates \u2013 some middle schoolers wrote a kudos to high schoolers and vice versa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students gave each other kudos notes for the the Kudos Corner in the ELA classroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As we finish our first project with the top songs from their lives, we will start our short story unit and add to the Bookmarks section of our wall. Be on the lookout for our first short story assignment to come home over the Labor Day weekend! This will kick off the next couple months of reading, discussing, and composing projects about a variety of stories and genres.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a full week of school, the blank Kudos Corner was becoming counterintuitive to its purpose (and oh-so boring to look at), so students wrote a Kudos to at least one of their peers. 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